SOPHOCLES; Adrien TURNÈBE, editor.

Τραγωδιαι. Αιαξ μαστιγοφορος....

Paris, Adrien Turnèbe, 1553 [(colophon:)...

A wide-margined copy of Sophocles in Greek...

£1850

SOPHOCLES; Ezra POUND, translator.

Women of Trachis. A Version by Ezra Pound.

London, Neville Spearman, [1956]. 

First edition of Pound’s version of Sophocles’...

£1000

[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]

Démophon.

[France (probably Paris), c. 1787.]

A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann...

£5250

ZANCHI, Basilio.

Dictionarium poeticum, et epitheta veterum...

Mons, Luca Rivius, 1612.

Scarce Mons-printed edition of Zanchi’s...

£375

VORAGINE, Jacobus de.

Lombardica historia que a plerisque aurea...

Strasbourg, [Georg Husner,] 1502.

Jacobus de Voragine’s influential Legenda...

£8000

EURIPIDES; SOPHOCLES; AESCHYLUS.

Tragoediae selectae Aeschyli, Sophoclis,...

[Geneva,] Henri Estienne, 1567.

Handsome pocket-sized Estienne edition...

£1850

PLUTARCH; John Moyr SMITH, illustrator.

An Argive Hero … with Illustrations designed...

London, Arthur H. Moxon, 1877.

Scarce first and only edition of John Moyr...

£950

ANNE, Queen.

Warrant, signed, authorising John Grubham...

27 January 1708/9.

An attractive document, bringing together...

£1750

[BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

£1500

[BYRON, George Gordon Noel, Lord.]

AUCHER, Paschal. A Grammar Armenian and...

Venice, at the Press of the Armenian Academy,...

First edition, scarce, of Byron’s Armenian...

£3250

[COLVIL, Samuel.]

‘Mock Poem, or Whiggs Supplication Part ii’.

1670s?

A fine early manuscript of the second part...

£1250

HARRIS, James.

Three Treatises the first concerning Art...

London, John Nourse and Paul Vaillant, 1765.

Presentation copies, inscribed ‘From...

£600

HIPPOCRATES.

The Eight Sections of Hippocrates Aphorismes...

London, W. G. for Rob. Crofts, 1665.

First edition of this translation of the...

£850

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

The most remarkable Year in the Life of...

London, Richard Phillips, 1802.

First edition in English of Kotzebue’s...

£500

KOTZEBUE, August Friedrich Ferdinand von.

Travels from Berlin, through Switzerland,...

London, Richard Phillips, 1804.

First edition in English, quickly translated...

£500

[MAGRATH, Cornelius.]

‘Ein Irländer Riss …’

Nuremberg, 1756.

A delightful promotional image for the...

£3000

[PRAYERS.]

The New-Years-Gift, complete: in six Parts....

London, Henry Mortlock, 1700.

Unrecorded edition of a very popular collection...

£1200

[OXFORD UNIVERSITY.]

Pietas Universitatis Oxoniensis in obitum...

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1761.

First edition, one of fifty copies on large...

£10000

[POPE, Alexander.]

The Dunciad. An heroic Poem. In three Books....

‘Dublin, Printed; London, Re-printed...

Second edition, rare, and of considerable...

£4500

PORTER, [Jane].

Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with Remarks,...

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807.

First edition, uncommon, of a collection...

£600